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Received Pronunciation

NOUN
  1. the approved pronunciation of British English; originally based on the King's English as spoken at public schools and at Oxford and Cambridge Universities (and widely accepted elsewhere in Britain); until recently it was the pronunciation of English used in British broadcasting

How To Use Received Pronunciation In A Sentence

  • She speaks with the sort of received pronunciation you might expect from a former yachtswoman brought up in the Home Counties.
  • Young teachers are under pressure to drop their regional accents and adopt received pronunciation, research suggests. Times, Sunday Times
  • We do not, however, see it as the school's place to enforce the accent known as Received Pronunciation.
  • Young teachers are under pressure to drop their regional accents and adopt received pronunciation, research suggests. Times, Sunday Times
  • Young teachers are under pressure to drop their regional accents and adopt received pronunciation, research suggests. Times, Sunday Times
  • Young teachers are under pressure to drop their regional accents and adopt received pronunciation, research suggests. Times, Sunday Times
  • Young teachers are under pressure to drop their regional accents and adopt received pronunciation, research suggests. Times, Sunday Times
  • Second, received pronunciation is alive and well and still rather popular. Times, Sunday Times
  • Their voices would be clipped Received Pronunciation, quite different from chattier tone of current Radio 4 announcers. Celebrating Radio 4's continuity announcers
  • It wasn't until the mid-19th century that received pronunciation became the accent of choice for royals and public schoolboys. Times, Sunday Times
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